A fundamental problem in the way business process modelling (BPM) is carried out today is the lack of explicit and systematic reuse of previously developed models. Although all business processes possess unique characteristics, they also do share many common properties making it possible to classify business processes into generally recognised patterns of organisational behaviour. Patterns, or general solutions to recurring problems, have become a widely accepted architectural technique in software engineering, however their use in business process modelling is quite limited. Given the documented benefits that patterns have produced in software engineering (for example, increased productivity and acceleration of the learning curve), it can be assumed that their adoption in BPM could yield similar advantages. However, the systematic adoption of patterns in BPM cannot be a simple transposition of the experience acquired by the design patterns community in software engineering. This is due to some essential differences between business modelling and software design. While the latter involves the representation of an engineered artefact (i.e., software), the former concerns the representation of behaviour of a real world system (i.e., the business organisation) that grows in an emergent manner. Therefore, while software design patterns are normally based on engineering experience, the discovery of generalised business behaviour should be preferably conducted in a more empirical manner via the analysis of organisational process data in all its forms. Empiricism is currently not the basis for the discovery of patterns for BPM and no systematic methodology for collecting and analysing process models of business organisations currently exists. This project aims at developing such a methodology. Moreover, given the real world nature of organisations, ontology is adopted as the principal driver of the methodology so as to interpret business process data, discover recurrent behaviour and model the generalised patterns found. This project is called Empirical Modelling of Business Process Patterns with Ontologies (EMBO). The assumption underpinning the project is that business organisations will be capable of more flexibly adapting themselves to changing operational practices thanks to the generalised nature and semantic expressiveness of ontology-based business process patterns.

The project “STEMitUP (Instilling interest for STEM entrepreneurship to young people across Europe) was designed to stimulate entrepreneurship and encourage STEM uptake by making STEM-related courses fun and interesting for students aged 4-15. It was also designed to plant “seeds of interest” that could grow into rewarding STEM entrepreneurship careers. Adding an entrepreneurial layer to STEM education helps young people to apply scientific and mathematical to solve real-world problems, to think creatively and to benefit their communities. STEMitUP developed a range of gender-sensitive activities to promote scientific and entrepreneurial thinking, which are now available for download on the project website:https://www.stemitup.euThe project achieved this through its fusion of STEM, Entrepreneurship and gender-sensitive Education, and the development of a state-of-the-art professional development training programme, targeting pre-service and in-service teachers. It implemented the innovative activities of STEMitUP at European level through cooperation between universities, science museums, NGOs, SMEs and their European networks.The project has also produced state-of-the-art reports on STEM entrepreneurship, which is a neglected, trans-disciplinary area in European education. These are also available from the website.All the objectives of the project were achieved, as follows:1)STEMitUP improved teacher training in the area of STEM entrepreneurship by providing materials and workshops.
2)STEMitUP developed students’ skills related to STEM entrepreneurship subjects, through workshops and a science fair.
3)STEMitUP promoted the increased participation of girls and other groups of learners at special risk of exclusion from scientific and entrepreneurial studies and careers, by adopting an inclusive STEM entrepreneurship education model.
4)STEMitUP encouraged sharing of experiences from all partners across Europe to identify best practices for the incorporation of ideas related to science, technology and entrepreneurship in STEM classrooms and in teacher education;
5)STEMitUP fostered a mutually beneficial relationship between research communities in STEM entrepreneurship subjects, teacher networks and local education systems for the on-going advancement of the disciplines;6)STEMitUP facilitated the widespread dissemination and sustainability of resources and innovative pedagogical approaches to the wider EU community and internationally, through its website https://www.stemitup.eu,The main activities of the project included:1)
Mapping of best practices at national, European and international level;
2)Development of STEMitUP activities for teachers and students;
3)Development of pedagogical material related to STEMitUP activities;
4)Definition of a methodological framework for “fun” as a founding element of work;
5)Organisation of training events for teachers to create the conditions for the implementation of STEMitUP activities; 6)Organisation of multiplier events to widely disseminate project activities;. Report FormThe potential impact of STEMitUP will depend on long-term trends in entrepreneurship education in general, and the interaction between entrepreneurship and other trends in STEM education, such as inquiry-based learning. We identified some of these trends in two of the main documents resulting from the project: IO1, the national state of the art report and IO2, the consolidated report on STEM entrepreneurship in Europe.In order to provide robust evidence of impact, the project would, however, need to collect data for a considerable length of time after the end of its official funding period, which is not possible under the current arrangements.Areas where the project has achieved potential impact included:
•Increased motivation for students towards STEM-related and entrepreneurship subjects;
•Increased awareness by students of the relevance and functionality of STEM entrepreneurship, leading to a probable increase in the number of students taking up academic studies and careers related to STEM disciplines.•Improved problem-solving and critical thinking skills, reasoning, and literacy, both to facilitate science education and to increase the scientific literacy of citizens;
•Greater implementation of inquiry-based teaching methods and related interdisciplinary approaches by teachers;
•Engagement of students in STEM entrepreneurship from an early age;
•Increased interest of parents and the general public in science and technology •Increased number of women in STEM-related studies;•
Enhanced STEM entrepreneurship levels, leading, in the long term to reduced youth unemployment, while boosting job creation and growth;
•Increased number of STEM startups due to improved innovation capacity.

AN ESSENTIAL UNTAPPED WATER SUPPLYThe overall project proposal is to produce a demonstration and commercial trials prototype of a residential and commercial premises atmospheric water extracting device that turns the ambient humidity that is prevalent in the air that we breath into water. Particularly for drought or arid conditions and focussed for use at the point of need. This invention creates a much needed water supply from a source that wasn't obvious before. We need specialist engineering support to answer the challenges of matching air flow, humidity and power requirements for the amount of water produced.

MASTRO Project aim is to develop intelligent bulk materials for the transport sector based on the novel concepts like self-sensing, self-deicing, self-curing, self-healing and self-protection methodologies to increase consumer safety, component life-span and performance while reducing maintenance and manufacturing costs. The functionality of the developed components will be demonstrated under relevant conditions at prototype level for the aerospace, automotive and transport transport networks. These developments will be supported by theoretical material models to capture the self-responsive functionalities. The outputs of the Project will consist of numerous applications in these sectors. The matrices addressed consist of lightweight polymer composites like glass/carbon fibre reinforced polymers and thermoplastic materials (including melt-spinning for textiles used in the transport sector) together with asphalt and concrete formulations incorporating electrical carbon-based conductive nanomaterials. These self-responsive functionalities are based on two physical phenomena: piezoresistivity and Joule effect. The aim of self-responsiveness properties can be summarized as follows: Self-sensing: to confer to the intelligent components the ability to monitor/store data about its own condition in terms of vibrations, defects, fatigue, creep and strain. Self-deicing: to avoid the ice layer formation or the loss of performance due to cold weather. Self-curing: to increase quality and durability while reducing manufacturing cost of the polymer composites and cement concrete formulations by improving the curing process step. Self-healing: to aid the repair of polymer composites and asphalt concrete formulations by healing those materials without the need of an external and expensive maintenance operation. Self-protection: to minimize the failure occurrence in case of electrostatic charge accumulation or lightning impacts by discharging the voltage through the smart component